Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Mustard her teacher quickly became her suitor who tried to impress her with his knowledge of religious matters. Montgomery underwent several periods of depression while trying to cope with the duties of motherhood and church life and with her husband’s attacks of religious melancholia and deteriorating health: "For a woman who had given the world so much joy [life] was mostly an unhappy one. Beginning in the 1980s her complete journals edited by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston were publiLucy Maud Montgomeryd by the Oxford University Press.

Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island Canada and the Canadian province became literary landmarks. She was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems.